[Tfug] CAnDid question

[Choprboy]

On Monday 28 June 2004 18:18, Brian Murphy wrote:
> Quoting JD Rogers <jdrogers at optics.arizona.edu>:
> > For the record, qcad is gpl, so I just apt-got it and it actually looks
> > decent.
> 
> 
> Not to hijack the thread, but... :-)
> 
> Is a CAD program like this the best tool to plan out some landscaping
> plots that I want to draw for my back yard?  I'm also in the need for
> interior design drawings as well.
> 

Depends on what you really want to do with it. Qcad was really designed to be 
a 2D mechanical cad program, drawing lines and rectangles, chamfering edges 
and applying dimension lines (it was also developed in metric units). As 
such, it tends to be good drawing small-medium sized "blocky" things. For 
landscaping it would be alright (though you have to tweak the units... or 
have a really precise backyard measured in mm!), though there aren't 
predefined things like trees/shrubs/etc.

As for interior design, I used it to do my house plans for permits... it was 
OK, but took a while to get use to... and there's no 3D. I've been looking at 
Cycas for architectural CAD. Looks very good, but its a bit of money if your 
purely casual.

Adrian